[OSGeo Oceania] Oceania Digest, Vol 8, Issue 22

Mon Sep 23 16:15:36 PDT 2019

Membership

I guess being such a broad area that Osgeo Oceania is covering all this
concern about membership is inevitable compared to setting up a one state,
or small country localised group.   The discussion continues to raise
questions that either I've missed the answers to,  haven't been addressed
or maybe don't need addressing. But I'll raise them anyway.

Is membership of  Osgeo Oceania open to the global geospatial community or
is it ring fenced to Oceania?
Is there a definition of the geographic area members can come from  eg the
National Geographic Oceania boundary and the countries therein?
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/oceania-physical-geography/

Are there going to be regional groups within Oceania to which members of
the full organisation will need to be aligned to?
If so it would be more likely that those running the regional group would
have a better knowledge of those intending to become members to support
applications.

Also, my experience of user groups is that it is at sub regional levels is
where all of the support and knowledge of the work going on comes from.
These groups traditionally meet regularly creating an even closer
affiliation among members. Also it cuts down travel or the reliance on just
conferences or regional seminars for communication, demonstrations of
projects etc. It has been mentioned about existing 'interest groups'.   Are
they the same as or as effective as more general sub regional groups?

A final point: if I've read what's online correctly,  the business model
that you have chosen means that only Australian residents or Australian
citizens living outside of Australia ( and then only in minority numbers on
the Board ) can be members of the Board and therefore Directors of
Oceania?   Is that correct?

Regards
Tony B

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> From: "Kerry Smyth" <kerry.smyth28 at gmail.com>
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> Hi John
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> I meant “letters after your name” valued in CVs etc.
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> eg Jane Brown CA (Chartered Accountant)  John Brown MIA (Member Institute
> Architects).
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> I am not sure who determines these learned institute or such like.
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> Thanks Kerry. Can you clarify what you mean by this?
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> Will there be an entitlement to post-nominal (eg MOSGeo Oceania)
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> From: "Kerry Smyth" <kerry.smyth28 at gmail.com>
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> Thanks all for a quite robust discussion on this important topic, it's
> really great to see this much engagement. There seems to be a fair bit of
> discomfort with the two tier model proposed, and I agree that it may
> introduce more complexity than we really want. To move forward, I'd like to
> propose a simplified alternative:
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> *       We have a single type of membership that confers voting rights.
> *       To ensure a reasonable level of engagement, while protecting the
> org against bad actors/hostile takeover/etc, we roughly follow this process:
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> *       take nominations for new members
> *       use an eligibility threshold that balances accessibility with
> genuine engagement
> *       include a ratification step that could be done by the board, or a
> membership working group (TBD)
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> This doesn't capture all the detail of how this would work, but if it's
> acceptable in broad strokes, I can update our draft policy and we can work
> through the details over next couple of days.
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> Any objections?
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